The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-23
FLORIDA.

The health of Ocala was never better.
The telephone service has been resumed
at Longwood.
Smyrna's new So, 900 hotel will not be
built this season.
The implements have arrived for boring
the artesian well at Ocala.
Orlando raised 81 900 Friday for the yell
low fever sufferers in Tampa.
| A tobacco exchange is talked of by many
of Key Vests leading factories.
The Citizens National Bank of Orlando
opened up for business Thursday.
The cotton crop of jefferson county will
the present season. aggregate fully Il, 900
bales.
The water courses in Polk county are all
full and running over from the recent heavy
rains.
The steamer Clara will make three trips
week from Daytona to Rockledge and
Georgiana.
Mr.. B. B. Tatum has purchased the entire
| interest of G. M. Holden in the Barlow
AdUance- Courier.
Orange packing and shipping is getting to
be quite a brisk business in Plant City.
There was many a crate shipped last week.
The plans for the new Union depot at St
Augustine have Just arrived, and the build
ing of the structure will soon be com
menced.
Lieut.. Benjamin G.. Pursell, of the signal
| corps, has been ordered on an inspection
tour of the telegraph stations of the service
in Florida.
J. f. A. Tufts of Orlando, has been ap-
pointed County Commissioner to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr..
Andrew Aulin
A Florida pension for service in the Mex
tod fn
Weissbred, of Tampa, and an increase to
Nicholas Baggott.
Toledo g. Co, are building a factory and
a large number of tenement houses on
White street at Key West. The work on
them is well advanced.
Mr.. Sly's store at Lady Lake was robbed
last week of $500 worth of goods. 1t IS said
that two negroes did the burglary. The
| authorities are after them.
The steamer Pyles, on Panasoffkee, is now
| making regular trips on that lake, the Outlet
and the Withlacoochee river She is owned
| by Capt. Sam Pyles of Oconee.
| At Gainesville five prisoners escaped from
| jail about O'Clock Friday evening by filing
off some bolts and making ropes of their
blankets. One was recaptured.
The schooner Berg, Capt. r. A. Sanchez,
and Pearl, Capt. NJ. j. Christopher, have
arrived from philadelphia to ply between
| St Augustine and the Bahamas.
| The public school at Ocala has now 131
| scholars with 5 teachers; the Misses Glenn
ents and Manly rs scholars, and Miss Cohen
and Prof Parker have each a private school.
There is an alligator over three feet long
in Agnew's pond, at Ocala, that comes by
calling, and eats three times day out of
| the hands Of his owner. He is being easily
| trained
| At Ocala, A. Z. Waterman has COM
menced to arrange for the electric light
system. The wires are to be erected on
cypress poles, and the engine will be located
at his residence, near the city.
A. O. Willard, at Enterprise, has secured
his license, and will sell liquor until Sept.
30, 1888, no matter what the result of the
election may be. T. f. Savage is trying,
with every prospect of success, to establish
a saloon at DeLeon Springs.
| Ekonlolxhatchee bridge on the Lake
Jessup, Chuluota and Fort Christmas wagon
road was reported to be afioat last Monday
morning at an estimated height of four feet
above its original position, which rendered
it of no value TO the travelling public.
At Palatka a movement is on foot to call
mass meeting Of citizens TO urge the insti-
tuition of a quarantine against Jacksonville
and other points which are maintaining
what is regarded at Paatka as a senseless
and injurious prohibition against travel
and commerce i'll the State.
AT Dade City Pompey Gamer, the negro
arrested for false swearing and illegal vot-
ing on Oct 10, was arraigned and tried
on Saturday, Oct. 10, before Judge Thrasher
The State failed to establish the charges and
the prisoner was discharged the costs being
taxed against the prosecutor.
Monticello Constitution. Thirty cents a
| pound should be an inducement TO all far
mers to devote a considerable area of land
to the cultivation of tobacco next season
1t grows finely in this county, and will
yield from 800 to 1000 pounds to the acre.
That is better than SIS to $25 per acre
realized from cotton.
Gen. w. ID. Barnes, State Comptroller
now convalescent after his protracted and
serious Illness left Tallahassee weak ago
for West Florida to spend few weeks ut
Mariana his formar hama Gen. Barnes